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    Short Story Summary of The Somebody The writer of this article is Danny Santiago also known as Daniel Lewis James‚ born in Kansas city‚ 1911‚ and passed away in 1988.First novel- Famous All Over Town 1984 received the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award for fiction given by the American Academy and Institute of Artsand Letters in 1984 and the PEN President’s Award in 1985 for the novel. The character he creates in The Somebody is based on the experience he witnessed. This story portraits

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    Zichao Huang Mr. Lambert English028 March 17‚ 2015 The Story of an Hour “The Story of an Hour” is about a woman named Mrs. Mallard who is married to a man named Mr. Mallard. Mrs. Mallard does not have a very good heart‚ and she is sick. Something bad has happened‚ and people do not know how to tell her about it. Josephine is her sister‚ and she tells Mrs. Mallard that Mr. Mallard died in a train accident. Richards is Mr. Mallard’s friend‚ and he is there because he knew about the accident. Richards

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    she was a “lady.” The grandmother also has an interesting use of the word “good.” She calls Red Sammy a “good man” for letting some men buy gasoline on credit‚ suggesting that she associates “good men” with gullibility and blind faith. Later in the story‚ she causes the family to make a wrong turn because she misremember the location of a plantation house she wanted to visit. When she realizes her mistake‚ she jerks her knee‚ ultimately causing the car to crash. She does not tell anyone about her mistake

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    Creative Writing: Topic-Ocean Long before the dawn of time itself‚ there existed a tiny singularity‚ the one bright spark of light which would give birth to all objects in the universe. This singularity held oceans of knowledge‚ many in which our emotions and thought cycles originated from. Where all knowledge on the universe and what was to be was stored. Inside the singularity‚ a tiny civilisation governed these vast oceans of knowledge‚ they were the guardians of knowledge‚ the most learned

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    Julie kicked the door shut behind her‚ tossed her keys on the desk and headed for the refrigerator. She grabbed a Coke and a piece of left-over chicken and then stood at the sink eating the cold chicken with her fingers. She gazed out the window at the incredibly warm and sunny winter day. She longed to spend the afternoon with her boyfriend but her last assignment waited and it was due tonight. She felt the time slipping away quickly‚ as if a bomb were about to go off. She sighed‚ threw the chicken

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    In the short stories: The Black Cat written by Edgar Allan Poe‚ Prey written by Richard Matheson ‚ and The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving‚ the gothic elements violence and entrapment are used through the author’s tone and attention to detail. Each of the gothic elements listed above are used in each piece of literature. Entrapment is shown in each of these stories by the author putting the characters in inescapable predicaments. For example‚ in Matheson’s Prey‚ the woman in the story

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    A bulky‚ middle-aged man stared at the roughly cut and oddly shaped stone in his hands‚ his brows furrowed deeply in anger. His eyes then shifted from the trashy stone onto the youth standing next to him. The youth appeared to be no older than fifteen and had ragged features of an adult‚ contrasting the slender and almost underfed body. The boy had black eyes and hair and was currently puffing his bony chest out in pride. “Trash!!” the middle-aged man exclaimed suddenly as he threw the stone against

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    In a short story by Mujica‚ she explains the difficulties a bilingual student faces in American society. She uses her niece as an example‚ telling how fear prompted her decisions to turn down great opportunities. These opportunities came from talent‚ she was a soccer player‚ who was offered many scholarships to play at another school. Thought‚ her niece did not speak English fluently‚ this caused her to feel uncomfortable outside of a familiar setting. As she was growing up‚ school progressively

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    1. In the first short story “The Storm” the setting was a small store in Louisiana that was located not far from the home of Bobinot and Calixta. The location of the store set the tone of events that followed when the storm approach the area. The graphic notion of sexual interest between Calixta and Alcee is brought to life in the secluded store during the storm. Now for the second short story “A Good Man is Hard to Find” the setting is a family road trip though portions of Georgia and Tennessee

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    UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS AS LITERATURE IN ENGLISH: SYLLABUS 9695 NOTES FOR TEACHERS ON STORIES SET FOR STUDY FROM STORIES OF OURSELVES: THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS ANTHOLOGY OF SHORT STORIES IN ENGLISH FOR EXAMINATION IN JUNE AND NOVEMBER 2010‚ 2011 AND 2012 CONTENTS Introduction: How to use these notes 1. The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allen Poe 2. The Open Boat Stephen Crane 3. The Door in the Wall HG Wells 4. The People Before Maurice

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